Book launch of the oldest surviving Pahlavi manuscript, the codex MK
Key information
- Date
- Time
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7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Gallery
- Room
- DLT
- Event type
- Lecture
About this event
The event celebrates the publication of the facsimile edition of the oldest surviving Pahlavi manuscript, the codex MK, copied by the priest Mehrabān Kayhusraw in 1322 CE.
The edition was prepared by the later Dastur Kaikhusrow M. Jamaspasa, to whom the original manuscript belongs, and Professor Almut Hintze. On the evening, Professor Hintze will present the manuscript and talk about its history, its rediscovery and restoration, its contents and significance.
Reception to follow.
About the speaker
Almut Hintze studied Indo-European philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Oxford and earned her PhD in Indo-Iranian Studies at the University of Erlangen. After her habilitation in Berlin with a study of the semantics of 'reward' in Ancient Iranian (Avestan) and Vedic Sanskrit texts, she spent a term at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Subsequently she became Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and was appointed to the Zartoshty Brothers post at SOAS in 2001. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2015 and is the PI for the Multimedia Yasna project.
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